Improvement in apparatus for preserving fruit



LB R. C. GOOLEY.

Patented June 3,1873. 1

INVENTOR.

WITNESSES.

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LE ROY G. COOLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AMANDA T. JONES,

OF CLINTON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR PRESERVING FRUIT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,547, dated June 3, 1873; application filed March 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEROY G. CooLEY, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Preserving Fruit; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to preserving fruit; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices constituting an apparatus by means of which an air-pum p and a tank of liquid on the one hand, and any-number of preserving-vessels or fruit-cans on the other hand, may be so connected that the air can be exhausted from the "essels and the fluid conveyed into them without admitting the outside atmosphere.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates an air-pump. B represents a tank or vessel filled with a preserving-liquid, as, for instance, sirup. O 0 indicate preserving vessels or jars, each provided with an air-tight cover having a small opening in the center. 1) represents the main tube or longitudinal chambers of my apparatus, of proper diameter and sufiicient length for the attachment of any desired number of conducting-tubes, E, leading. to the vessels 0 (J. These conducting tubes branch from the main tube D on each side, a little above its lowest line, leaving, therefore, within the main tube, a channel, a, between and below the mouths of these branch tubes. The other ends of these branch tubes are provided with short sections b of glass, through which the character of the operation going on within may be distinguished. At the lower end of each glass section a flange, 0, may be formed, serving as a shoulder to receive an annular packing which may be placed around the end 6 of the tube, which is designed to be inserted intothe opening in thecenter of the cover of the vessel 0, thus making the joint air-tight. F designates a tube opening into the top of the main tube, and reaching away to make connection with the air-pump. In this tube is a valve or stop-cock, f, by means of which it may be opened or closed at pleasure. G indicates a tube opening into the channel portion a at the bottom of the main tube, and reaching away to make connection with the sirup-tanker liquid-vessel. In this tube another valve or stop-cock, d, is located. This tube is also provided with a glass section or sight, h. I p

The operation is as follows: The small branch tubes being properly packed with rubber, are

introduced into the central apertures of the covers of the jars or vessels, which have been filled with the fruit properly cleaned and prepared in the usual manner. The main tube is then connected with the tube of the air-pump, i

and both stop-cocks are opened. The air-pump is then put in operation, and when the sirup or preserving-fluid has risen in the tube G to the height of the stop-cock d the latter is closed until such time as it may be required to pour the liquid upon the fruit or substance to be preserved. The operation of the air-pump is then continued until the air is exhausted from the fruit, when, if it be necessary, both stop cocks may remain closedfor some time in or der to allow the air to escape. from. the pores of the fruit. When the sirup orpreservingfluid is to be introduced, the air being properly exhausted, the stop-cock f is closed and H the stop-cock d opened, allowing the fluid from the tank to rise in the channel a of the main tube, and to pass down through the branch tubes E into the jars C. These branch tubes are inclined slightly from the points where they are set into the main tube, to allow of a freer passage of the fluid. When the fluid ceases to run into the jars the lower stopcock d is again closed and the upper one f opened for the renewed operation of the airs pump, exhausting the air and vapor'again,

when the preserving-fluid is again allowed to In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two Witnesses.

LE ROY (l. OOOLEY.

Witnesses: a

S. B. GRISWOLD, JAMES R. BOYNTON. 

